Specifications

20 Plan and Create the Card Design
ID Works Standard and Enterprise Version 5 Administrator’s Guide
Background
You can specify that your card background be printed with a color,
with a graphic, or with both. You can use graphics in any of the
following formats
See the online help topic “Add a graphic or color to a card
background” for step-by-step instructions.
You can specify that your background graphic be converted to
grayscale and, optionally, printed with the K-panel of the printer
ribbon. See “Printing Graphics with the Card Printer’s K-panel” on
page 134 for complete information.
If your printer supports edge-to-edge printing and you want your
background to print to all edges of the card, you must select that
option on the Printing tab of the Edit Card Design Properties dialog
box. See the online help topic “Set card printing options” for step-by-
step instructions.
Because of the method used to print on plastic cards, dark solid
colors may darken at the trailing end of the card. You can
compensate for this by using a graphics software package that allows
BMP Windows Bitmap
EPS Encapsulated PostScript
JPG Joint Photographic Experts Group File Interchange Format
(single image per file)
PCT Macintosh PICT Drawing
PCX PC Paintbrush
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PSD Adobe Photoshop® (3.0)
TGA TARGA® Image File Format
TIF Tagged Image File Format (single image per file,
uncompressed only)
WMF Windows Metafile